Nicholas Wood, a former foreign correspondant for the New York Times in the Balkans has just taken a group of four, including one New Zealander, to the Ukraine on a Political Tour to see how the revolution has unfolded and the dynamics inside the country amid the fallout from Russia’s occupation of the Crimea.

Leading Russian journalist and commentator, Konstantin Von Eggert spent eight days with the group providing an insight into Putin’s motivations.